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weirdly i have the windows problem on linux with my laptop: never have I had it not wake from sleep, but sometimes it starts overheating while on sleep and drains the battery super quick
many times ive put my laptop on sleep in my pouch, taken it out and hear the fans blasting, the laptop is burning hot and the battery lost 40% in 20 minutes
ACPI is weird and sometimes hardware dependent, so it's really hard to support it on every device. that's my current understanding at least.
It's been quite a while since I've used sleep on a laptop, but it worked well on my Dell (latitude I think, as I said, it's been a while). It did take a little experimenting with sleep levels to get it reliable, but once it was it worked for years.
ETA: I realise that saying "it worked for me" is probably intensely annoying, my appologies for that, but I thought a counterpoint might be a useful extra data point.
Re the windows waking up, it's likely a network card/chip to blame. You can disable the ability to wake inside Device Manager. Every time I had a system wake unexpectedly, networking was to blame.
I also had it that one laptop was configured to wake any time the mouse moved even a tiny bit. So walk past the laptop, laptop is now awake.
Sadly I cannot configure any of that on my work laptop, because helpdesk thinks allowing me to do so would be a security risk or something like that.
Works fine on mine. Windows will wake up and check for updates if you don't turn that off. It doesn't work on Linux?
On Linux on kernel 6.11+ it freezes every single time on wakeup.
On kernel 6.10 it freezes when the laptop has been sleeping for more than a few hours.
Hibernate just reboots the PC.
My laptop refuses to stay asleep if fstab disks were disconnected prior to sleeping. It works perfectly fine for me now that I figured that out.
Just one more weird behavior with fstab and kde or Linux or arch? I don't know who to blame.
With OpenSUSE Leap sleep always worked for me, (even hibernate works) but if you had it as external monitor only then sometimes the screen power off would not come back on, and the laptop screen was told to stay off. I found myself using KDEconnect on my phone to try to cycle monitor power on/off command and sometimes it figured it out
On the Windows one, consider hibernating it. Its a longer wake up time, but it doesn't wake up randomly.
Company policies for some reason has hibernate disabled -.-
My laptop uses 0.07w sleeping, draining about 1.8% of the battery per hour. I would say that's acceptable with 32GB RAM s2idle
Framework 16 on NixOS
Considering the security implications of suspend and how much enabling zram has improved my workflow for hibernate, I can't really say I miss suspend any much. It was fast (near-instant in good days) but it's always been a bet whether you can restore state or have to clean boot.
Also at least in my experience there were always a number of things that just borked suspend if you left them unattended. Back when I was still maining Debian Stable on 2022, having a remote mounted via SSHFS or having Redshift active always would lead to a near-eternal freeze before suspending, or worst case scenario a suspend-into-crash (ie.: suspends right, but panics during resume).
I wouldn't mind if at least hibernation worked. But it always loses the state on hibernate and acts as if there was just a power loss. It boots up with a fresh state instead of the stored one.
It's quite a bit old and maybe superseded by something more modern in 2025 already, but have you tried setting up your boot with the acpi_osi=linux parameter? It should enable some corrections and capabilities from the BIOS that are not available if the system "lies" to the BIOS by telling it it's Windows ("for compatibility, they said"). Dunno, maybe it juuuust happens to include the fix you need.
Its mostly the blue light and the lack of melatonin. Seriously though I have not had an issue with it in linux and not really that much with windows but half the time I shut my machine down.
Instructions unclear, now my laptop is covered in sticky stuff.
Sleep on my minisfourm v3 is awesome with Linux. It correctly detects the keyboard cover, auto rotates based on the accelerometer and can be unlocked using the fingerprint sensor.
@squaresinger@lemmy.world It's probably because my kernel version is very old (5.14.11-arch1-1, haven't updated since 2019, even though it's Arch, a rolling-release distro) and my Acer laptop is old as well (Intel Core 7th gen), but I rarely have problems regarding laptop sleep. After I wake the laptop up, the video (including every VT#) may get frozen and I have to remotely SSH and request a reboot (and when this happens, sometimes the reboot gets stuck as well, so I have to do a hard power-off). But it's very rare, as stated, and I daily put my laptop to sleep without issues, sometimes the system uptime stretches to weeks (currently, my system was booted almost four days ago).
Roughly 1M anecdotes in the comments already